Males are larger than females, males have a mass of 7 to 9 Kg and females 4 to 5 Kg. The tail is a third longer than the body. The coat of the head and the shoulders is dark grey to black. Facial skin, feet, hands and lower limbs are black. Upper limbs and flanks are paler than the shoulders. Belly and throat are a creamy white. The muzzles of males protrude to accommodate the enlarged canines.

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I have only seen one once and that wasn’t in Kruger….was in Mozambique. I think a sighting in Kruger has to be really something special. I believe however that people who see monkeys in northern Kruger immediately presume that it is Vervets…do not take the time to look closer.

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Kruger is only marginally Samango area, since they are true forest apes. Vervets tend to spend a lot of time on the ground (though less than baboons) and are regarded as a bridge species between forest and savanna apes.

Samangos needs forests of which there is very little in Kruger. Pafuri is almost the only area in which they would be found in Kruger.

Between 1982-88 some 95 Samangos from Entabeni near Louis Trichardt was released along the Luvuvu river. The re settlement is not regarded as having been very successful, and Samangos is only occasionally seen in this area (Pafuri).

So maybe Jumbo is right and you have to be in Moz or in 'parts unmentionable on this forum' to see them.
But next time in the Pafuri/Crooks Corner area I will certainly keep my eyes open for them, and maybe......

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Geographically the unmentionable place is situated on the KZN coast about 100 km north of Richard bay.

I am pleased that you also find the appearance of this monkey strange, at least different enough to raise questions regarding the possibility of it being something else than Samango. But what can the explanation be? The monkey was accompanied by a huge troop of Samangos that all have the typical Samango features, why just him with the differences. It is certainly not a vervet monkey. So, what do you think?

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